History TearJerker / BreakingBad

** Spooge and his girlfriend live in crushing poverty and are filthy, emaciated and covered in sores as a result of their drug addictions. Even if you hate them ([[HateSink and you probably do,]] given their repulsive personalities, horrible neglect of their son, and their murder of the cashier during the ATM theft) you still have to wonder what circumstances could've led them to such an absolute rock bottom in life.

** Marie's reaction when she learns about his death and being told they will never find Hank's body. While she has the grace of knowing he's actually dead and not just missing, she doesn't even have the closure of having a body to bury.

* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E8GlidingOverAll Gliding Over All]]": After Walt orchestrates the systematic murder of 10 witnesses in jail, he speaks to Hank at his house, who's spent several days dealing with the fall-out of every single one of his leads to the mysterious Heisenberg ending up as bloodied corpses in under two minutes. Hank sadly reminisces back to his college days, when he had a simple minimum wage job marking trees in the forest for woodcutter crews. He admits he hated it, but it was a lot better than "chasing monsters". Even Hank, who's seen his fair share of awfulness during his career as a DEA agent, is horrified and frightened of Heisenberg's depravity.

** In a fit of petty revenge, Walt reveals Jesse's hiding place to the Neo Nazis, and they drag him out kicking and screaming, with Jesse almost being shot execution-style. Todd stops them by saying that Jesse should tell them what he told the DEA, and after that, he can die. Jack agrees, and Walt agrees as well. They drag Jesse again, but Walt asks them to wait. You think that maybe he has a change of heart, but then: [[WhamLine I watched Jane die]].
*** He goes into more and more detail about how he could have saved her, and how she died. And then he walks away, with a numb and shellshocked Jesse being dragged away [[FateWorseThanDeath to god knows what]].
*** Jesse looks absolutely ''broken'' when he hears it and looks like an abused puppy when the car drives away.

* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E8GlidingOverAll Gliding Over All]]": After Walt orchestrates the systematic murder of 10 witnesses in jail, he speaks to Hank at his house, who's spent several days dealing with the fall-out of every single one of his leads ending up as bloodied corpses in under two minutes. Hank sadly reminisces back to his college days, when he had a simple minimum wage job marking trees in the forest for woodcutter crews. He admits he hated it, but it was a lot better than "chasing monsters". Even Hank, who's seen his fair share of awfulness during his career as a DEA agent, is horrified and frightened of Heisenberg's depravity.

* Walt bluntly telling Dr. Chavez how shitty his life is.
-->"Doctor, my wife is seven months pregnant with a baby we didn't intend. My 15-year-old son has cerebral palsy. I am an extremely overqualified high school chemistry teacher. When I can work, I make $43,700 per year. I have watched all of my colleagues and friends surpass me in every way imaginable..and within 18 months, I will be dead.\\
And you ask why I ran?"

[[caption-width-right:300:[[WhamEpisode Pretty much how most people reacted after watching "Ozymandias".]]]]
->[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech ''"Ever since I met you, everything I ever cared about is gone! Ruined, turned to shit, dead, ever since I hooked up with the great Heisenberg! I have never been more alone! I HAVE NOTHING! NO ONE! ALRIGHT, IT'S ALL GONE! GET IT? No, no, no, why...why would you get it? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? You don't give a shit about me! You said I was no good. I'm nothing! Why would you want me, huh? You said my meth is inferior, right? Right? Hey! You said my cook was GARBAGE! Hey, screw you, man! Screw you!"'']]
-->-- '''Jesse Pinkman''' summing up the show.

** Even worse is Walt just [[HeroicBSOD collapsing]] afterward.

->''"Ever since I met you, everything I ever cared about is gone! Ruined, turned to shit, dead, ever since I hooked up with the great Heisenberg! I have never been more alone! I HAVE NOTHING! NO ONE! ALRIGHT, IT'S ALL GONE! GET IT? No, no, no, why...why would you get it? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? You don't give a shit about me! You said I was no good. I'm nothing! Why would you want me, huh? You said my meth is inferior, right? Right? Hey! You said my cook was GARBAGE! Hey, screw you, man! Screw you!"''

[[caption-width-right:300:[[WhamEpisode The usual reaction after watching "Ozymandias".]]]]

** When Walt kidnaps Holly to "punish" Skyler. Plays into a normal AdultFear, but what brings it over the edge is when we hear Holly's first word: Mama. At that point, Walt [[HeelRealization realizes]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone that]], through his own actions, his family has no attachment to him anymore and returns Holly.

->''"Ever since I met you, everything I ever cared about is gone! Ruined, turned to shit, dead, ever since I hooked up with the great Heisenberg! I have never been more alone! I HAVE NOTHING! NO ONE! ALRIGHT, IT'S ALL GONE, GET IT? No, no, no, why...why would you get it? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? You don't give a shit about me! You said I was no good. I'm nothing! Why would you want me, huh? You said my meth is inferior, right? Right? Hey! You said my cook was GARBAGE! Hey, screw you, man! Screw you!"''

*** It's worth noting that Flynn's last words to his father are [[IronicEcho almost the same]] as what he told him ''[[Recap/BreakingBadS1E4CancerMan near the beginning of the series]]'' when Walt talked about refusing treatment for his cancer. Back then, those came from a son hurt by his father's defeatist attitude. Here they're spoken with genuine hatred, which cut Walt even deeper.

*** It's worth noting that Flynn's last words to his father are [[IronicEcho almost the same]] as what he told him in ''Recap/BreakingBadS1E4CancerMan'' when Walt talked about refusing treatment. Back then, those came from a son hurt by his father's defeatist attitude. Here they're spoken with genuine hatred, which cut Walt even deeper.

** In a fit of petty revenge, Walt reveals Jesse's hiding place to the Neo Nazis, they drag him out kicking and screaming. Walt asks them to wait, and you think that he has a change of heart but then: [[WhamLine I watched Jane die]].

* Near the end of "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E13FaceOff Face Off]]", Gus is sitting in his car waiting for Tyrus to call and give him the clear to enter the nursing home and kill his long-time nemesis, Hector Salamanca. Gus is silent, but clearly looks very emotional as he stares at the building waiting. He is no doubt contemplating the arduous steps he had to take toward avenging his friend, Max's death, i.e., working his way up the Mexican cartel, building his own empire in America, gradually killing the rest of Hector's family and friends, and eventually crushing the cartel itself, all to get to this moment where he kills his murderer. And made even more sad because we already know he is about to die with him. This, along with ambient western-style music "Goodbye" by Apparat and slow paced cinematography, creates an especially haunting effect.

*** Those tears are also the last we see of Walter White. Heisenberg completely takes over after that.

*** Compounded by Walt screaming [[VillainousBreakdown"What the hell is wrong with you? WE'RE A FAMILY!"]] and then sees Skyler and Walt Jr. cowering in fear of him, as Holly wails in the background. He then hopelessly whispers "We're a family". It was the inevitable conclusion that the show had been building to, Walt destroying the family he had been trying to protect.

*** Compounded by Walt screaming [[VillianousBreakdown"What the hell is wrong with you? WE'RE A FAMILY!"]] and then sees Skyler and Walt Jr. cowering in fear of him, as Holly wails in the background. He then hopelessly whispers "We're a family". It was the inevitable conclusion that the show had been building to, Walt destroying the family he had been trying to protect.

*** Compounded by Walt screaming "What the hell is wrong with you? WE'RE A FAMILY!" and then sees Skyler and Walt Jr. cowering in fear of him, as Holly wails in the background. He then hopelessly whispers "We're a family". It was the inevitable conclusion that the show had been building to, Walt destroying the family he had been trying to protect.

-->'''Hank:''' ''[to Jack]'' Do what you’re gonna d- ''[[[KilledMidSentence bang]]]''

---> '''Jesse:''' Ever since I met you, everything I ever cared about is gone! Ruined, turned to shit, dead, ever since I hooked up with the great Heisenberg! I have never been more alone! I HAVE NOTHING! NO ONE! ALRIGHT, IT'S ALL GONE, GET IT? No, no, no, why...why would you get it? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? You don't give a shit about me! You said I was no good. I'm nothing! Why would you want me, huh? You said my meth is inferior, right? Right? Hey! You said my cook was GARBAGE! Hey, screw you, man! Screw you!

-->'''Mike''': The moral of the story is... I chose a "Half Measure", when I should have gone all the way. I'll never make that mistake again. No more [[TitleDrop Half Measures]], Walter.

-->'''Jesse''': For what it's worth... ...getting the shit kicked out of you... ...not to say you get used to it... ...but you do kind of get used to it.

-->'''Walt:''' I don’t want you to think of me the way I was last night. I don’t want that to be the memory you have of me when I’m gone.
-->'''Walt Jr:''' Remembering you that way… wouldn’t be so bad. The bad way to remember you would be the way – the way you’ve been this whole last year. At least last night, you were – you were real… you know?

-->'''Hank''': (to Jack) Do what you’re gonna d- ([[KilledMidSentence bang]])

** Lydia was definitely a SmugSnake with a ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, but [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes the love she has for her daughter]] is probably the only redeeming quality she has. Think about this from Kiira's perspective; your loving mother has just been poisoned with ricin and is not expected to survive, which means she has to spend the next few days by her mother's side crying at the fact that she's dying very soon. Don't get me wrong, Lydia's a bitch and a half and [[AssholeVictim she definitely deserves to die]], but it's hard not to feel sorry for her daughter losing the only known family she has left!